Entropy fix after better statistical analysis

[originally from svn r723]
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Simon Tatham 2000-10-20 10:42:31 +00:00
Родитель 92deca11dd
Коммит 58cdc03c68
1 изменённых файлов: 12 добавлений и 10 удалений

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@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static int CALLBACK MainDlgProc (HWND hwnd, UINT msg,
static const char generating_msg[] =
"Please wait while a key is generated...";
static const char entropy_msg[] =
"Please move the mouse in this window to generate randomness";
"Please generate some randomness by moving the mouse over the blank area.";
struct MainDlgState *state;
switch (msg) {
@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static int CALLBACK MainDlgProc (HWND hwnd, UINT msg,
endbox(&cp);
beginbox(&cp, "Actions",
IDC_BOX_ACTIONS, IDC_BOXT_ACTIONS);
staticedit(&cp, "Length of generated keys in &bits:",
staticedit(&cp, "Number of &bits in a generated key:",
IDC_BITSSTATIC, IDC_BITS, 20);
endbox(&cp);
}
@ -476,16 +476,18 @@ static int CALLBACK MainDlgProc (HWND hwnd, UINT msg,
/*
* My brief statistical tests on mouse movements
* suggest that there are about 5 bits of
* randomness in the x position, 5 in the y
* suggest that there are about 2.5 bits of
* randomness in the x position, 2.5 in the y
* position, and 1.7 in the message time, making
* 11.7 bits of unpredictability per mouse
* movement. However, other people have told me
* it's far less than that, so I'm going to be
* stupidly cautious and knock that down to a nice
* round 4.
* 5.7 bits of unpredictability per mouse movement.
* However, other people have told me it's far less
* than that, so I'm going to be stupidly cautious
* and knock that down to a nice round 2. With this
* method, we require two words per mouse movement,
* so with 2 bits per mouse movement we expect 2
* bits every 2 words.
*/
state->entropy_required = (state->keysize / 4) * 2;
state->entropy_required = (state->keysize/2) * 2;
state->entropy_got = 0;
state->entropy_size = (state->entropy_required *
sizeof(*state->entropy));